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Following the historical work on the inhibitory synapse of the motoneurone in the vertebrate spinal cord (Brock et al., 1952), the neurohumoral theory of synaptic transmission was generally accepted as a satisfactory description of the mechanism by which informations is transmitted to a neuron. It is now known that some neurons can also interact by a purely electrical process, but the electrically working junction offers less functional flexibility than the chemical synapse.
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Tauc, L. (1971). Transmission Action on Synaptic Neuronal Receptor Membranes. In: Loewenstein, W.R. (eds) Principles of Receptor Physiology. Handbook of Sensory Physiology, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65063-5_3
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